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  • #RaiseTheQuota

    Aotearoa, the land of the long white cloud takes in 750 refugees a year. This measly number means that we are 87th in the world in per capita rankings. We haven’t changed this number in 30 years. When Amnesty International (and loads of other organisations) started calling on the New Zealand government to do its bit…

  • The Bamboo Ceiling

    So this link came across one of my newsfeeds today. Yea, it’s an American context, about American-Asian kids going to American colleges. However, it’s not the first we’ve heard of such a thing, here in Aotearoa anyway. There was this gem from 2010 in our very own Herald.

  • It’s been a while!

    So I’ve been super slack in the whole blogging thing. I guess i’ve not had enough to really make me ranty in a while… hehe, no that’s a lie, just haven’t had the TIME to be /longread/ ranty in a while! What have you lovely readers been up to? I thought i’d blog about my…

  • Identity

    [EDIT: I wasn’t gonna do this, but it’s been a day now, THIS is what I am CURRENTLY proud to identify as] An incident happened today and it is one of those things that has compounded in my head from previous similar things and has now exploded into this post you are about to read.…

  • Girl Geek Dinner becomes RefactorNZ & musings about coding

    Yes, this is completely shocking, i’ve not blogged yet this year, and it is nearly the END of February! I guess I’ve contained the rant so far! I’ve just come back from yet another awesome Girl Geek Dinner, wait scratch that, it is now Refactor NZ! And it is as awesome as it ever was!…

  • Research and Life

    It’s a bit of a lazy start to the new year. I’m in year two of the Taught masters, so no more papers, just the research dissertation to go. I’ve gotten a bit of Ahead start by meeting with my supervisor before the year actually started, but am trying not to let that be an…